people sharing idea's and the best ideas get voted up. We do the top ones.

Sounds more like plan, proposal worthy. Sounds also like it happened elsewhere in another subreddit recently. You should lurk moar. It was not very effective, fact is the activist hivemind on reddit is pretty slow and ineffective, its too fragmented and thats not likely to change.

I guess smart people are out there joining alternative political parties and effecting change bottom upwards, empowering their communities, winning hearts and minds. Not watching cat videos on reddit.